Károly Kiszely

Károly Kiszely

Károly Kiszely (* 1953 , Hungary ) is a conservationist , “ dropout ”, environmental journalist and essayist , green thought leader, civil rights activist , former member and publicist of the liberal resistance and the “ samizdat ” movement in Hungary 1981–1989.

Life

Kiszely was the first known conscientious objector in Hungary to refuse military service for reasons of conscience (not as a member of a small church), which is why he served a prison sentence from 1976 to 1979. Kiszely initiated community service and the abolition of general military service in Hungary and in Eastern Europe . He is considered one of the pioneers of the green thought in Hungary ( German  Güne Meditationen , Independent Samizdat Verlag ABC, 1985; basic knowledge of environmental protection - but different, Verlag 3. Part, 1995) and was the initiator of the institution of the “Ombudsman of Coming Generations in the Hungarian Parliament “(Parliament's environmental advocate) as well as co-founder and coordinator of the initiative for a national park Őrség (in the border triangle Austria-Hungary-Slovenia, together with the mycologist Zagyva Tibor).

Kiszely has 5 children and is divorced. He currently lives, writes and takes photos in a forest house in the border triangle Austria-Hungary-Slovenia and has several horses and other animals.

Fonts (selection)

• My Time Inside for Saying No to Arms , in: END. Journal of European Nuclear Disarmament, Nos. 16/17, Summer 1985, p. 10.
• The Hungarian situation: a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm? May 2013, Green Education Workshop ( Online )
• Hungary crime - European crime? In: Planet-Burgenland. April 8, 2014 ( online )
• The land of pseudo-phenomena In: IG Kultur Steiermark (ed.): There is a lot to do. For a democratization of cultural policy in the 21st century. Graz 2014, pp. 61–65.

literature

• Lawrence Klippenstein: Father Bulanyi and the Pacifist Controversy in Hungary 1976-1987 , in: Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe, 9 (1989) 1, p. 10, 15-21 ( online )
• Vladimir Tismaneanu: Unofficial Peace Activism in the Soviet Union and in East-Central Europe , in: idem (ed.): In Search of Civil Society: Independent Peace Movements in the Soviet Bloc, Routledge New York 1990, p. 1-53 (especially p. 36).
• Stephen R. Burant (ed.): Hungary. A country study (Area Handbook Series, Department of Army, Pam 550-165, Federal Research Division), Washington DC, Second Edition 1990, p. 246 ( online )
• Catholic and for that dungeon. Conversation with Károly Kiszely about the situation of those who refuse to serve arms in Hungary , in: Karl Pfeifer: Immer wieder Ungarn. Autobiographical Notes, Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in the Political Culture of Hungary - Texts 1979 to 2016, Berlin, Edition Critic 2016, pp. 68–69.

Web links

• Fight for a better, freer life. Der Spiegel, October 20, 1986
• Independent publishing house ABC Biographical Lexicon Resistance and Opposition in Communism 1945–91 (a project of the Federal Foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship)